Wessex Lodge, 16, The Beeches, Manchester M20 2FR
MAN/00BN/LSC/2022/0081 · service charges · Manchester · decided 26 Jun 2023
The tribunal disallowed several drainage, gate repair, car parking rent and legal fee charges, capped electricity at a set tariff, reduced management fees by 25%, and granted the leaseholders' request that the landlord's tribunal costs not be charged as service charge.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Landlord or management company |
| Freeholder / landlord | Landmark (Bolton) Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | Residential Management Group |
| Building | A block |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2018, 2019 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| Total demanded | £63,000 |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | none stated |
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What the decision says
- freeholder
Applicant : [name] (Bolton) Limited
- agent
Ms [name] – Residential Management Group (“RMG”)
- years
the service charges years 2018/19 and 2019/20
- outcome
the management fees are reduced by 25% or each of the service charge years in issue;
- items reduced
the costs of the RESCOM works prior to the water ingress to Apartment 8 are disallowed in full and the Respondents are not liable to pay them;
- s20c
it is just and equitable to grant the Respondents’ application under s20C of the 1985 Act preventing the Applicant from charging any of its costs incurred in the proceedings before the tribunal as service charge.
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